Vehicle tax will not cancel: the government does not approve

Marina Lystseva / TASS

On the official site of the government of Russia published a response on the bill on cancellation of a vehicle tax. The bill of cancellation of a vehicle tax was introduced in the State Duma by deputies from LDPR faction — Yaroslav Nilov, Igor Lebedev and Alexander Smirnov. by

In the conclusion it is said that "the government does not support the bill in the presented edition". According to the authorities, cancellation of a tax can lead to emergence of the dropping-out income from the federal budget in the volume of 146,2 billion rubles in 2016.

At the same time the government are allowed by deduction introduction on this tax for heavy-load cars — weighing over 12 tons.

Earlier Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared, what from owners of heavy-load cars for using federal routes should be improved the mechanism of deduction of a payment, considering an order of the president of Russia on preparation and deduction realization from a vehicle tax.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the beginning of a year charged to the government to prepare offers on cancellation of a vehicle tax for cars with an allowed weight over 12 tons from which the payment on account of compensation of the harm done to roads of federal value is raised.